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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer The Los Angeles Sparks have been on roll lately, battling their way to just below .500 after a slow start to the season. Los Angeles (10-11) has won four of its past five games and a big reason why is the play of All-Star Nneka Ogwumike and free agent
Continue Reading BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Two men were reported missing after attempting to cross the southern Sierra Nevada’s Kern River on the Fourth of July, authorities said Tuesday. Deputies responding to an early afternoon report of missing swimmers were told that the two were crossing with others when they were swept downstream by the river current,
Continue ReadingBy Devon M. Sayers and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Florida’s law banning abortions at 15 weeks will remain in effect after the state filed an appeal Tuesday that stayed a state judge’s order temporarily blocking the ban. In a verbal ruling last week, Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge John Cooper said that the Florida law was
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was dealt a huge and sudden blow on Tuesday when two of his top ministers announced their resignations, saying they could no longer work for a government mired in scandal. Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced their decisions to quit within minutes of
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By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Media reports say Twitter has challenged the Indian government in court over its recent orders to take down some content on the social media platform. The Press Trust of India and the Bar and Bench legal news site report that he lawsuit was filed on Tuesday.
Continue Reading BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — One person was killed and two others were wounded in a late-night shooting in southeast Bakersfield, police said. The shooting was reported shortly after 11 p.m. Monday and officers found three gunshot victims, a police press release said. A woman was pronounced dead at a hospital, another woman had a critical
Continue Reading PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — The Coachella Valley Firebirds have hired the American Hockey League’s first female assistant coach. Jessica Campbell is ready for the opportunity. “I’ve been spending a little bit more of my time on the development side the past three years and truly trying to create the opportunities and the growth for
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The first puck has yet to drop at Acrisure Arena, but the Coachella Valley Firebirds are already making history: Jessica Campbell has been named the first assistant coach and is the first female in this role in the American Hockey League. She brings years of experience on the ice as a coach and player. Jessica
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Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — Casi tres años después del “estallido social” en las calles de Chile, que llevó a un plebiscito para cambiar la constitución y finalmente a un cambio de gobierno en las últimas elecciones, el país tiene el borrador final de su nueva Constitución, que se someterá a votación el 4 de
Continue ReadingBy Yong Xiong, Hannah Ritchie and Nectar Gan, CNN A massive online database apparently containing the personal information of up to one billion Chinese citizens was left unsecured and publicly accessible for more than a year — until an anonymous user in a hacker forum offered to sell the data and brought it to wider
Continue Reading By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — European Council President Charles Michel has urged North Macedonia to back a French-proposed compromise on ending a dispute with neighboring Bulgaria that’s blocking the country’s long-delayed European Union accession bid. Violent protests erupted in North Macedonia’s capital, Skopje, where demonstrators tried to storm government buildings,
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN A decade ago, the Large Hadron Collider, Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator, proved the existence of an subatomic particle called the Higgs boson — thought to be a fundamental building block of the universe dating back to the big bang billions of years ago. Now, physicists at the European Organization for
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Katie Hunt, CNN A decade ago, the Large Hadron Collider, Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator, proved the existence of an subatomic particle called the Higgs boson — thought to be a fundamental building block of the universe dating back to the big bang billions of years ago. Now, physicists at the
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British Airways says it will cancel hundreds more summer flights after previously announced cuts in scheduled flights proved insufficient to ease travel disruptions. The announcement on Tuesday will affect tens of thousands of travelers planning to fly from London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The airline said in the spring that it would
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — El tenista Nick Kyrgios deberá comparecer ante un tribunal el mes que viene en Canberra, la capital de Australia, tras haber agredido supuestamente a su exnovia a finales del año pasado, según informa la prensa australiana. Cuando se le preguntó sobre la acusación este martes, la policía australiana dijo a CNN en
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By Gregory Krieg, CNN A gunman in Highland Park, Illinois, killed seven people and injured dozens more on a July Fourth parade route on Monday, setting off a manhunt that paralyzed the Chicago region before a suspect was apprehended by police later in the day. The wounded ranged from ages 8 to 85. All the
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN Repeatedly catching Covid-19 appears to increase the chances that a person will face new and sometimes lasting health problems after their infection, according to the first study on the health risks of reinfection. The study, which is based on the health records of more than 5.6 million people treated in the
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GARY, Ind. (AP) — Police say gunfire during a July Fourth block party in northwestern Indiana left three people dead and seven wounded. The shooting happened in a residential neighborhood of Gary, Indiana, about 12:45 a.m. Tuesday. Gary police Lt. Dawn Westerfield says officers found three people down and unresponsive. The wounded were taken to
Continue Reading By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee judges have dismissed a lawsuit filed by a couple who alleged that a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency refused to help them because they are Jewish. The lawsuit challenged a 2020 state law that installed legal protections for private adoption agencies to reject state-funded placement of
Continue Reading By OLEG CETINIC and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Israel’s caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday used his first trip abroad since taking office to urge world powers to step up pressure on Iran over its nuclear activities. He called the Islamic republic a threat to regional stability. Lapid met in
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